Watchmen - Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood (2009)

Synopsis: Bloated corpses buoy a castaway’s life raft in TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER, a grisly parable taken from the pages of Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN. One of the book's most riveting detours, the... Bloated corpses buoy a castaway’s life raft in TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER, a grisly parable taken from the pages of Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN. One of the book's most riveting detours, the comic-within-a-comic (read by one of the book's characters) ominously paralleled the main events of the graphic novel. Although the beloved story was cut from Zach Snyder’s big-screen version of WATCHMEN, it's recast here as a standalone animated program aimed at mollifying completists and ramping up interest in the adaptation. Paired with the macabre take on ROBINSON CRUSOE is another lopped-off limb from the comic: UNDER THE HOOD, a mix of live action and CGI that looks back at the salad days of Nite Owl and the Minutemen. [More]

Starring: Gerard Butler, Jared Harris, Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer

Starring: Gerard Butler, Jared Harris, Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer, Stephen McHattie, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Director: Daniel Delpurgatorio, Mike Smith, Eric Matthies

Director: Daniel Delpurgatorio, Mike Smith, Eric Matthies
Producer: Brian McNulty, Karen Mayeda-Vranek, Wesley Coller, Eric Matthies
Composer: Tyler Bates, Paula Gallitano

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